Salam and Eid Mubarak to all! I thought that this would be a great time to bring down the pricing for Watermyth. I’m not changing the list price of USD9.99 for the ebook (I spent too many years slogging at it and it’s a pretty thick book!) but I am making a super-long promo period … Continue reading Updated Pricing For Watermyth
I’ve been on a rewatch/watch of Elementary (I only watched the first two seasons before this but now I’m watching everything) lately and contemplating on whether or not one could consider the show cozy. Sure, there are murders nearly every week but the show is relatively light on the gore and the high octane. The … Continue reading Cozy? Domestic? Romantasy? On Labels and the Gatekeeping of Subgenres
2011 was the second year of my attempting to turn different novellas into a single braided novel. I’d changed the title from The Mermaid Tower to Watermaidens in 2010 (sometime between then and the first time I sent the book out to an agent, it became Watermyth). Nowhere in the years since I had first … Continue reading The First and the Fifteenth Watermaidens Day
Hello! I have very happy news to share today. Watermyth managed to make it to the British Science Fiction Association Awards Longlist for Best Novel! I saw the nomination information make the rounds on social media rather wistfully but thought it was way out of my league and so did not really pay too much … Continue reading Watermyth is on the BSFA Longlist!
Dear Readers, Happy New Year! Watermyth‘s first publication anniversary was reached on 7th January 2025 after a rather challenging year of learning how to market and promote the book. These were all skillsets which I possessed to a certain limited degree. I had to promote my short stories, poems and Truancy Magazine, after all. However, … Continue reading Watermyth’s 1st Book Birthday Anniversary 💯